Mar 20【每日活水】顺从律法的真义而非形式

 

路加福音13:10~17

安息日治好驼背的女人

10 安息日,耶稣在会堂里教训人。

11 有一个女人被鬼附着,病了十八年,腰弯得一点直不起来。

12 耶稣看见,便叫过她来,对她说:「女人,你脱离这病了!」

13 于是用两只手按着她;她立刻直起腰来,就归荣耀与 神。

14 管会堂的因为耶稣在安息日治病,就气忿忿地对众人说:「有六日应当做工;那六日之内可以来求医,在安息日却不可。」

15 主说:「假冒为善的人哪,难道你们各人在安息日不解开槽上的牛、驴,牵去饮吗?

16 况且这女人本是亚伯拉罕的后裔,被撒但捆绑了这十八年,不当在安息日解开她的绑吗?」

17 耶稣说这话,他的敌人都惭愧了;众人因他所行一切荣耀的事,就都欢喜了。

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,

11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.”

13 Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

14 Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, “There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.”

15 The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water?

16 Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?”

17 When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.

 

内容观察

1.安息日,耶稣在会堂里做了什么?(11~13节)

2.会堂的主管为什么生气?(14节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.耶稣明知道犹太人的律法,为什么还是在安息日医治病人?
 

个人感受

4.看到耶稣怜悯弱者和病人,胜过遵守律法的形式,我有什么感受?
 

决心与应用

5.我的里面是否有只遵守律法形式的一面?

6.为了明白律法的真义,并以爱和怜悯之心顺从,我决定要怎么做?

灵修指南

安息日,耶稣在会堂里教导人时,看见一个被灵附身,腰弯得直不起来的女人,就按手在她的身上治好了她。会堂的主管看到这一幕很生气,指责耶稣违背了安息日的律法,说他可以在平日做这事,但是不可在安息日做(14节)。耶稣责备他们的自私和自以为义,以及他们假冒为善的律法主义,称他们丧失了爱的原则。在他们眼中,那些弱者和病人甚至不及他们所饲养的牲畜,而耶稣却指出他们的错谬,让他们感到羞愧(15~17节)。耶稣来并不是为了无视和废除律法,相反,祂来是为了完成律法,让律法的真义显明。当我们站在审判台前,那些肤浅地只遵守律法形式的人将会蒙羞。盼望我们废掉形式化的宗教生活,放下在意他人眼光的伪善,明白神话语的真正意涵,作一个顺从律法真义的主门徒。
 

内室祷告

愿我不作那假冒为善最终蒙羞的人,而是成为顺从律法真义并蒙神悦纳的人。

 

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